From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9a5f3bd162009c01 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half? References: <70e0e$4331acfc$4995583$14979@ALLTEL.NET> <28319$4332b5a4$4995090$10623@ALLTEL.NET> In-Reply-To: <28319$4332b5a4$4995090$10623@ALLTEL.NET> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:09:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.11.153 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1127480984 209.165.11.153 (Fri, 23 Sep 2005 06:09:44 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 06:09:44 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5062 Date: 2005-09-23T13:09:44+00:00 List-Id: Its a point that makes little difference. Its pretty hard to write anything that is non-trivial or at all useful without linking to the runtime library or instantiating a compiler-supplied generic. I don't mind them doing it. I mind them doing it without a real clear notice that their compiler is now unacceptable for a large range of development. Someone could easily be in violation of their T's and C's and not even know it because it isn't intuitively obvious to the casual observer that when you write your own "Hello World" app and give it to someone else without source and a GPL license that you just opened yourself up to a lawsuit. Maybe ACT is planning an "Apple Computer Strategy"? Make money by sueing everyone who violates their intellectual property rights? MDC Marc A. Criley wrote: > Just a minor point: It's not the compiling, it's linking with the > runtime library, or using any of the vendor (g-*) packages; and the > instantiation exception to the GPL (such as for Integer_IO) has been > removed. > > Marc -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: No.Mcondic.Spam@Del.Mindspring.Com (Remove the "No.", ".Spam" and "Del." for the real address.) "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried." -- G. K. Chesterton ======================================================================